Impresionism

The impresionism in painting departed from the disagreement with the classic topics and with the artistic formulae praised by the French Academy of Fine arts. The impresionists chose the painting outdoors and the topics of the daily life. His first aim was to obtain a spontaneous and direct representation of the world, and for it they centred on the effects that the natural light produces on the objects. The most important painters were: Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, y Auguste Renoir.
The impresionists worried more for catching the incident of the light on the object that for the exact representation of his forms, due to the fact that the light tends to blur the contours and it reflects the colors of the surrounding objects in the zones of semidarkness. The academic painters were defining the forms by means of a tonal gradation, using the black and the brown for the shades. The impresionists eliminated the meticulous details and only they suggested the forms, using for it the primary colors-cyan, magenta and yellow and complementary orange, green and violet.They offered an illusion of reality applying directly on the linen brushstrokes of color short and juxtaposed, that mixed by the retina of the observer from an ideal distance were increasing the luminosity by means of the contrast of a primary color (as the magenta) with his complementary (green one). Thus, the impresionists achieved a major brilliancy in his paintings that the one that takes place normally on having mixed the pigments before applying them.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919)was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau.
He was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, the child of a working class family. As a boy, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents led to him being chosen to paint designs on fine china.He also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans before he enrolled in art school. During those early years, he often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters.
Renoir experienced his initial acclaim when six of his paintings hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. In the same year, two of his works were shown with Durand-Ruel in London.
Around 1892, Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis. In 1907, he moved to the warmer climate of "Les Collettes," a farm at Cagnes-sur-Mer, close to the Mediterranean coast.Renoir painted during the last twenty years of his life, even when arthritis severely limited his movement, and he was wheelchair-bound. He developed progressive deformities in his hands and ankylosis of his right shoulder, requiring him to adapt his painting technique. It has often been reported that in the advanced stages of his arthritis, he painted by having a brush strapped to his paralyzed fingers,but this is erroneous; Renoir remained able to grasp a brush, although he required an assistant to place it in his hand.[13] The wrapping of his hands with bandages, apparent in late photographs of the artist, served to prevent skin irritation.
During this period, he created sculptures by cooperating with a young artist, Richard Guino, who worked the clay. Renoir also used a moving canvas, or picture roll, to facilitate painting large works with his limited joint mobility.
Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.

I chose "Le déjeuner des canotiers" in english call Luncheon of the Boating Party, it's a painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is currently housed in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.(1881).The painting depicts a group of Renoir's friends relaxing on a balcony at the Maison Fournaise along the Seine river in Chatou, France. The painter and art patron, Gustave Caillebotte, is seated in the lower right. Renoir's future wife, Aline Charigot, is in the foreground playing with a small dog.

I think that is a really beautiful painting, so simple, so colourful, so real. For me represents creativity I don't know, just by the simple fact that as I paint, I've always think and think what to do, and he just see a funny set or a daily set and he painted without thinking so much. And I think he is such a good painter, so many perfection related to impresionism, details, etc.